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searches for certainty: “the reliable”
What is an Arab? …. The Arab, in a modern sense, did not exist until the birth of Islam. Until then, the dictionary definition was right: an Arab was no more than a native of Arabia. Arabia relapsed into obscurity … Continue reading
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Yet their brows touched heaven
The blur of identity is fundamental to the Arab consciousness and the history of the Arab peoples has been a perennial struggle to resolve it: an alternation of confusion , self-awareness and doubt, mixed with something that transcends frontiers and … Continue reading
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